CORRIGAN’S ERROR
INSISTS HE FLEW ATLANTIC IN MISTAKE. WARM WELCOME IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, August 5. Still wearing the old brown jacket and grey trousers'in which he flew and still insisting that his Atlantic crossing was a mistake, Douglas Corrigan arrived at New York, where he was met by harbour ferries and launches, filled with enthusiastic Irish. Corrigan declared: “I hope if I make more mistakes they (will turn out as successfully.” Corrigan recently flew from New York to Ireland in a nine-year-old sin-gle-motored plane, taking 28,1 hours for the flight. On landing he said the crossing was made by mistake; he had intended flying to Los Angeles. For this statement He was elected to lifemembership by the Burlington Liars’ Club.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1938, Page 5
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122CORRIGAN’S ERROR Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1938, Page 5
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